Better than: Just about anything else to come from the shores of Jersey in the past 30 years, particularly the past five. There is an indelible timelessness to Southside Johnny’s music that is right up there with summertime on the beach, vintage American steel, and young love. Perhaps that was a…
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Picture Marvin Gaye, Morrissey, and Amy Winehouse all rolled up in one,” a big name mélange, which accomplished Coral Springs musician Christopher Moll uses to describe the R&B-infected vocals of Maco Monthervil, Moll’s newest musical discovery. Moll is the gifted multi-instrumentalist behind the saccharine chamber-pop sounds of the Postmarks. Monthervil is a…
Like any philosophy, political ideology, or school of thought, feminism isn’t really a single, stable concept but more refers to a spectrum of ideas and beliefs about the role gender and sex play in human life and if they even exist in the first place. If we were to further…
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Improv is often perceived as a bit of a shtick. The performers get up onstage with little or no plan and just… go. But it’s actually a lot more work than that. It’s hard enough for a cast to get their act together when they’re rehearsing lines and have character…
It seems like the majority of holidays these days exist for the sole purpose of playing on Americans’ addiction to buying pointless things and feeding the hungrier-than-ever corporate beast. But not Record Store Day. See also- PHOTOS: Record Store Day 2012 at Radio-Active RecordsEach year on 4/20, appropriately aligned with…
The sun is setting on the Atlantic, and you’re sitting on a mound of sand smoking a spliff. The breeze is soft, and the expressions of your favorite and not-so-favorite musicians light up with the sunset. All of that, and you don’t have to camp out in the cold and…
From the Delta to the bayou, the blues touch the hearts, souls, and ears of the love-struck, down-and-out, and the everyday soul-searcher. It connects all people through its emotional expression of the human condition.In honor of the blues, a movement that inspired endless creations of iconic music and art, Kreepy Tiki…
The ultimate reality-show star weighs like 200 pounds but is working on losing weight by crying and weighing himself on a giant scale in front of an audience of millions. He has a really orange tan too and a few visible muscles. He also can dance like Fred Astaire and…
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WTF is Rihanna thinking when she tweets a picture of her bare-ass b-b-b-bootay in a G-string, under the obviously phony-baloney guise of showing off a pair of newly purchased boots? That question is rhetorical. We already have some ideas behind what could possibly be motivating one of the biggest pop stars…
Forever now, it seems like Broward and Palm Beach counties get passed up for shows with new and big electronic acts. Beside a few spots like Revolution, Pangaea/Gryphon, and Club Cinema, watching a house great turn knobs up here is rare. Although Miami might just be a half-hour drive, sometimes trekking…
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Breastaurants are not new. Marrying the appeal of breasts with suds and grilled meats dates back to the dawn of man. Organized versions of this traditional method of consumption can probably be traced back to the early ’80s and the introduction of the Hooters franchise. And while that franchise has…
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And the downward spiral continues! If we described an international music sensation who was addicted to drugs, consorting with “hos” in different area codes, and showing up to concerts late, who would you think we were talking about? Axl Rose or Justin Bieber? Believe it or not, it’s the Biebs,…
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Way back in 2001, Jacoby Shaddix declared he had finally reached his “Last Resort.”Twelve years later, the youth of today listen to electronic music and rapping to rock is a taboo shunned to the most mayo’d suburbs of Middle America. But Papa Roach has never stopped pushing forward with its…
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